A coalition of people from the LGBTI community are calling for a change in the way policing is conducted in NSW.

An online appeal for vision and photos has been launched by police investigating two alleged incidents at or near the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade earlier this month.

NSW Greens MP Cate Faehrmann has called for an independent investigation into policing at this year’s Mardi Gras following numerous allegations of excessive force being used.

This year’s Sydney Mardi Gras Parade and after-party has been hailed a success with over 9,000 participants on almost 110 floats creating a line of glitz and glamour up Oxford Street and Flinders Street, with messages reminding the community about equality and the need for acceptance and not discrimination.

SYDNEY: With less than a week to go to this year’s Sydney Mardi Gras Parade, a number of groups and organisations including NSW Police and Amnesty International are busy putting the final preparations to their eagerly awaited floats.

SYDNEY MARDI GRAS: They have been marching in the Mardi Gras Parade since 2008 but this year, for the first time, openly gay personnel from the Australian Defence Force will take part in the procession in full uniform – a move that will only have positive outcomes. It’s gay and lesbian service members speak with Reg Domingo. Photographed for SX by John McRae.

SYDNEY: As the days edge closer to the Sydney Mardi Gras parade, ACON will team up with police from a number of local area commands to take part in a high visibility operation that will focus on community safety and encourage LGBTI people to access support and report homophobic and transphobic violence.

SYDNEY: Police have released CCTV footage and are appealing for witnesses over a violent assault late last year on Oxford Street where a young man was bizarrely robbed of his skateboard and then attacked with it.

SYDNEY: A Sydney waiter charged with the rape of four young men dating back to 2009 has previous convictions “for offences of a sexual nature” it can be revealed.

SYDNEY: The NSW Government has offered a $100,000 reward for information that may help solve the mysterious death of visiting American maths genius, Scott Johnson, at the base of cliffs near Manly Beach almost 25 years ago which his family believe was the result of a gay-hate attack.

A Sydney hotel worker charged over the sexual assault last month of a teenager who had passed out drunk at a major train station could possibly be behind a string of other rapes and sex attacks dating back almost five years according to police.

A dark part of Sydney’s recent past will be revisited with an episode of ABC TV’s Australian Story to take another look at the case of a visiting American maths genius who it is now believed was the victim of a gay-hate murder at the hands of a marauding gang of homophobes who terrorised gay beats on the city’s beachside cliffs. 

A popular gay flight attendant from Sydney’s east remains missing after he disappeared from his Randwick home during the evening of Australia Day last week.

SYDNEY: Police have delivered an early Christmas present to inner-city residents and the LGBTI community after the arrest this week of two men wanted over a vicious assault and robbery of a Surry Hills man who had earlier befriended one of the attackers via a smartphone dating app.

With the party season well and truly heating up and Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations just around the corner, police and the City of Sydney are encouraging the public to plan ahead and stay safe during the holidays.